The climate during the Jurassic Period was warmer than it is today and is often described as having tropical greenhouse-like conditions. There was no ice at the North and South Poles. Sea levels ...

The Painted Desert in northern Arizona is a mesmerizing landscape of vibrant badlands stretching across the Colorado Plateau.

The 16 newly designated geoparks are located in China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea –marking its first geopark and ...

Think the book is always better than the film? These movie adaptations might make you reconsider, says Katie Rosseinsky ...

Fossils of dinosaurs dating to the Middle Jurassic Period, between about 175 million ... Carolyn Gramling is the earth & climate writer. She has bachelor’s degrees in geology and European ...

It also requires a bit of imagination, he said. During the Middle Jurassic Period, the area would have had a warm, humid tropical climate, rather than the chilled wind and rain that define ...

The NASA satellite image shows rust-red rock formations in Wyoming—evidence of 220-million-year-old 'megamonsoons'.

Lumbering, long-necked dinosaurs frequented the same watering hole as their predators some 167 million years ago, a scientific study of dinosaur footprints found. The footprints at what is now the ...

Now, this remarkable park has earned international recognition. On April 17, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and ...